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* are not the caufe of the difeafe, yet they 

 " confirm it, and caufe it to fpread." 



The diftance of the rows being ufually but 

 half what was allowed in this experiment, and 

 from four to eight cuttings commonly planted in 

 each hill, and here but one cutting in each, it 

 appears that the planters fet about ten times the 

 number of canes that is neceflary or is proper 

 to be done in the New Hufbandry ; the great 

 effect of which here is very evident, that deep 

 hoeing with the plough caufes one plant to 

 produce as much fugar, and of a much luperior 

 quality, as ten plants produce in their common, 

 method by hand-hoeing ; and this, notwith- 

 ftanding the great quantities of the richeft 

 manure, with which they conftantly drefs 

 their fugar-plantations. 



The Weft-India fugar-planters are at a very 

 great expence for Negroes, which coft them 

 fifty pounds and upwards each, and an an- 

 nual fupply to keep up the number. A prin- 

 cipal part of their employment in fummer is 

 hand-hoeing their fugar-plantations ; which, 

 though very fuperficial, is all the culture ufu- 

 ally given them. The Negroes, for their 

 keeping and the number neceflary to be pur- 

 chafed every year, amount to an annual ex- 

 pence of above one third part of all the ar- 

 ticles in a plantation ; fo that the fhallow hoe- 

 ing of the canes is an exceeding high expence 

 to the planter, though in effect infinitely more 

 of horfe-hoeing. The firft coft and keeping 



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